Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Collateral Beauty SPOILERS because this movie is INSANE Based on the trailers, you probably think Collateral Beauty, aka Will Smith’s holiday movie, is some kind of twenty-first century It’s A Wonderful Life, where the universe conspires to convince a sad schmuck that he’s better off being a sad schmuck, By Sarah • Dec 22, 2016 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence Passengers, the best worst movie of the year SPOILERS because everything wrong with this movie is the plot Passengers starts out like it’s going to be an existential sci-fi horror movie, something along the lines of Ex Machina, perhaps, where the science fiction premise is used to examine questions of morals and ethics, and the plot revolves By Sarah • Dec 21, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick is TOTALLY that guy A new trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2, aka one of my favorite movies of 2017, was released yesterday and this movie continues to look completely f*cking rad. We actually get a little sense of the plot in this one, as John Wick turns down a job which results By Sarah • Dec 20, 2016 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner’s potential answer Blade Runner is one of the most influential sci-fi films of the last thirty years, building off the dirt-and-muck aesthetic of Star Wars and the headier, more philosophical engine of 2001: A Space Odyssey. So it’s only natural, in our current nostalgia-driven culture, that a beloved classic be revisited By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rogue One almost stands alone The first spin-off of the Star Wars cinematic universe, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, starts on a familiar path: Trouble comes to a remote farm, where the hero of the piece is left orphaned. Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is abandoned when the Empire comes calling, dragging her scientist father, By Sarah • Dec 19, 2016 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer’s Terrible Vacation Earlier this year Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn shot a comedy together—you might remember it because of that ill-advised Formation “parody” that they made while on location. Remember how stupid and dumb that was? Well buckle up because the trailer for the movie they were making, Snatched, is out By Sarah • Dec 16, 2016 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah’s Top 10 of 2016 Captain America: Civil War Paying off years of story and character work, and servicing a cast numbering in the double-digits, somehow Civil War doesn’t collapse under its own weight. It delivers on both the action front, with the best superhero battle ever filmed, and the character front, executing the By Sarah • Dec 16, 2016 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Styles’s acting debut Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s inevitable World War II movie – it’s practically a rite of passage for male filmmakers of a certain age to make a WWII movie—released its first trailer yesterday, marking the official acting debut of Harry Styles. There’s more Harry Styles than Tom Hardy in By Sarah • Dec 15, 2016 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan makes the leap Over the last couple years Sebastian Stan has enjoyed a visible career bounce thanks to Marvel, picking up roles in big-deal movies, like The Martian, and Steven Soderbergh’s return to feature film, Logan Lucky, as well as higher profile indies like We Have Always Lived in the Castle. And By Sarah • Dec 14, 2016 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston and James Franco in Why Him? Why Him? is more than just a Christmas comedy, and more than a fish-out-of-water, meet-the-family tale. It’s a deep philosophical exploration of the inescapable loneliness that haunts us all, which is inevitably exacerbated by the tide of false cheer and forced goodwill that is the holiday season. Why Him? By Sarah • Dec 13, 2016 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston in Office Christmas Party On the heels of Bad Santa 2 comes Office Christmas Party, another sub-par Christmas “comedy” in which actors play characters that are more like guesses about what real people are like than representations of actual human people. But besides being a Christmas movie this is also an office comedy that By Sarah • Dec 13, 2016 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The F8 of the Furious The eighth Fast/Furious movie has an official title and it is The Fate of the Furious and somehow, miraculously not F8 of the Furious. To whoever chooses the names for these movies—YOU HAD ONE JOB. How do you not name it F8 of the Furious?! It’s RIGHT By Sarah • Dec 12, 2016 01:29 pm
Music Taylor Swift in February People lost their minds last night because Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik released a song. Kathleen made me laugh earlier when I texted her to tell her that I had to admit that I liked it. She wrote back that “Omg I tried so hard to hate it. I can’ By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain is Miss Sloane Miss Sloane has one of the best trailers of the year, and it also features one of the most interesting performances of 2016. Jessica Chastain’s portrayal of the film’s title character singlehandedly elevates Miss Sloane from a Confirmation-esque TV movie about a woman with a cause, to a By Joanna • Dec 09, 2016 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Go into the matrix to find the apple Sarah emailed me the new trailer for Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed this morning. “Jesus Christ, does anyone understand this premise? I play these games and I'm kinda WTF-ing it.” I don’t play these games and now, having seen this trailer, I think Assassin’s Creed By Lainey • Dec 09, 2016 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in Allied Marion Cotillard went into promotion on Assassin’s Creed right after Allied. Allied has not performed well at the box office. There’s nothing particularly wrong with Allied. From a craft standpoint, it’s well made. Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard don’t deliver the performances of their lives, but By Sarah • Dec 09, 2016 02:03 pm
